azure rewrite: no armor, it's his skin

Story/0BattleRoyale.fountain

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ PRODUCTION DESIGN: read `Story/Worldbuilding.md` BEFORE storyboarding. Quick ver
 - The court is **Catmull-Baroque passionately murdering Brutae** — raw concrete substrate, low-poly gilded procedural ornament bolted/carved on top, visible seams, amber rim on ornament / cool fill on concrete.
 - **TWO ROOMS + A VOID.** Rain presides from **the COURTROOM** (private throne chamber; no bleachers, no sand, no bubble; BD the cursed-cute throne-room pet on a cushion beside the throne). **The COLOSSEUM** is a separate full amphitheatre floating in a dreamscape black — ringed bleachers, sand floor, bubble on its iron cradle, chorus in the stands. At the rules-speech cue Rain dissolves the courtroom's right-hand wall into transparency and a staircase of gilded stone descends across the void to the colosseum's lower ring; the bubble's aperture is cut into the shell UNDER the overhanging front-row bleachers. See Worldbuilding §8.3.
 - The BUBBLE is an oblong spacetime-warp (~1km x 0.5km interior via warp ratio; actual physical diameter far smaller). Crystal-ball clear; blue holographic bleed at the edges. One Catmull-Baroque JUMBOTRON above the colosseum sand. Microscopic BUG-SHAPED DRONES (brass-baroque tiny mechanical insects with blue rim-light) swarm inside for coverage. See Worldbuilding §8.
-- Characters follow the **Gumball Rule** — each rendered in a native style (painterly dragon, JoJo-ink Azure, chibi Starboy, cel-silhouette Rooster, painted chimera Agate, cartoon-steampunk Ubear, portrait-realistic Adrian, anime-realistic Jenni on photo-backgrounds, cursed-fisheye Noname with antennae, pierced-chipper Beanie). Do not homogenize. Do not lampshade the clash.
+- Characters follow the **Gumball Rule** — each rendered in a native style (painterly dragon, JoJo / Killer Queen–inflected anime-ink Azure (skin, not armor), chibi Starboy, cel-silhouette Rooster, painted chimera Agate, cartoon-steampunk Ubear, portrait-realistic Adrian, anime-realistic Jenni on photo-backgrounds, cursed-fisheye Noname with antennae, pierced-chipper Beanie). Do not homogenize. Do not lampshade the clash.
 - The emote gargoyles and sub-banner chains around the colosseum are **Jenni's commissioned work**—the *fruits* of her private business with Rain, on display throughout the set. She can look at them with quiet satisfaction during her vanity card.
 */
 
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ CUT TO:
 
 INT. THE COURTROOM - FLOOR - CONTINUOUS
 
-A single figure stands in a pool of spotlight on the stone circle below the throne: **AZURE.** Full ref-sheet form—porcelain-periwinkle Killer Queen silhouette, gold-skull belts, cat-eared helmet, ice-mint slit eyes. Over the armor, comically wrong: an oversized **royal-blue John Cena tee**. Sleeves baggy. The shirt reads **CENATION** in peeling vinyl. He is waving—theatrical, elbow-deep—at the dais.
+A single figure stands in a pool of spotlight on the stone circle below the throne: **AZURE.** Full ref-sheet form — **Killer Queen–derived** silhouette, but **in skin:** porcelain-periwinkle hide, panel-like navy markings, gold-skull belts, cat-eared helmet, ice-mint slit eyes. Over that body, comically wrong: an oversized **royal-blue John Cena tee**. Sleeves baggy. The shirt reads **CENATION** in peeling vinyl. He is waving—theatrical, elbow-deep—at the dais.
 
 AZURE
 (brightly)
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Yes! Thank you—
 RAINCLOUD (O.S.)
 I loved it enough to put you in it.
 
-A long, small beat. Azure's smile holds. The armor does not move. Only the Cena shirt flutters, weakly.
+A long, small beat. Azure's smile holds. Under the tee his blue skin might as well be carved — it doesn't give. Only the Cena shirt flutters, weakly.
 
 AZURE
 (small)
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ CUT TO:
 
 INT. THE COLOSSEUM - UNDER THE BLEACHERS - CONTINUOUS
 
-The aperture up close. It looks like nothing — a sheet of blue breath, faintly distorting the forest colors on the far side. Azure stands in front of it, Cena tee catching the rim-light, Killer Queen silhouette rigid. Behind him, the others in their loose file.
+The aperture up close. It looks like nothing — a sheet of blue breath, faintly distorting the forest colors on the far side. Azure stands in front of it, Cena tee catching the rim-light, periwinkle silhouette rigid. Behind him, the others in their loose file.
 
 /* Above them, through the gaps in the bleacher benches, we glimpse chorus feet — hooves, claws, sneakers, a pair of tiny pirate boots — shifting. The audience is *right there*, directly overhead, waiting. The contestants do not look up. */
 
@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ CUT TO:
 
 EXT. FOREST - SAME CLEARING - CONTINUOUS
 
-/* The Ubear team-up. Azure and Adrian converge on Ubear as the shrink narrows the geography and the four of them are now in the same clearing. Killer-Queen / Killer Azure deploys — its one flashy moment in the film. Adrian is wounded in the fight. Beanie enters at the end with ice in her eyes. */
+/* The Ubear team-up. Azure and Adrian converge on Ubear as the shrink narrows the geography and the four of them are now in the same clearing. Azure's echo deploys — its one flashy moment in the film. Adrian is wounded in the fight. Beanie enters at the end with ice in her eyes. */
 
 Ubear comes first at Azure — unbothered, committed, iron club materializing from a hip loop and mech arm cocked.
 
@@ -1377,11 +1377,11 @@ AZURE
 (quiet, to himself)
 Sorry, my lord.
 
-He reaches through the JoJo-ink of his own silhouette and **summons.**
+He reaches through the inkline of his own silhouette and **summons.**
 
-/* Killer Azure deploys. Write it big. A Killer-Queen-stand silhouette resolves behind Azure at full body length — porcelain-periwinkle armor, cat-eared helm, gold-skull belts, ice-mint eyes. Its hands are its own. It moves an instant behind him, just out of sync, the way a stand moves. JoJo-ink outlines, flat color, physics-breaking poise. */
+/* Killer Azure deploys big — Killer Queen–typed echo, but the figure is **skin**, not armor: a full-height duplicate resolves behind him — porcelain-periwinkle body, cat-eared helm, gold-skull belts, ice-mint eyes. Its hands are its own. It moves an instant behind him, just out of sync, like a frame-late shadow in a fight game. Bold outlines, flat color, wrong physics poise. */
 
-A Killer-Queen-shaped silhouette rises *out of Azure's back* — porcelain-periwinkle and gold, flat-color JoJo-ink lines, hard and perfect and late by a heartbeat. The crowd of drones *swarms* it with interest. The jumbotron, far away in the colosseum, cuts to it immediately. Somewhere behind glass, Rain leans forward.
+A periwinkle Azure-shaped silhouette rises *out of Azure's back* — porcelain and gold, flat-color ink lines, hard and perfect and late by a heartbeat. The crowd of drones *swarms* it with interest. The jumbotron, far away in the colosseum, cuts to it immediately. Somewhere behind glass, Rain leans forward.
 
 Ubear stops in his tracks.
 
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ AZURE
 (lower)
 I can't.
 
-He steps back. Lowers the sword. The stand lowers with him — reluctant, a half-beat slow — and retreats into his back in a glimmer of JoJo-ink.
+He steps back. Lowers the sword. The echo lowers with him — reluctant, a half-beat slow — and retreats into his back in a glimmer of bold ink.
 
 Adrian, on one knee, makes a small wet sound and laughs.
 
@@ -1778,7 +1778,7 @@ She comes.
 
 /* Fight: quick, brutal, real. Beanie is not faking. Beanie wants to live too — wants to make Azure fight for it. She nearly gets him twice. Azure dodges, parries with the green sword, keeps giving ground. At one point he has a clean opening and passes it up; Beanie SEES this, snarls, and drives him back harder. He cannot keep passing openings. Finally he stops passing them. */
 
-Azure gives ground. Back against the rear wall of the cave. Beanie has cut him twice — a line across his armored forearm, a shallow graze to the side of his helm. She is in close.
+Azure gives ground. Back against the rear wall of the cave. Beanie has cut him twice — a line across his blue forearm, a shallow graze to the side of his helm. She is in close.
 
 She comes again. Commits to the blow.
 
@@ -1925,7 +1925,7 @@ He goes down sideways against the stone. Cena tee rucked up around the shaft. He
 
 He poofs.
 
-A slow, JoJo-ink-lined column of blue-holographic mist — flat color, bold outlines, one last ridiculous flourish of a pose in the silhouette as it rises — lifts out of the cave, up through the mouth, past the aura-wall, into the higher aura above.
+A slow, bold-ink-lined column of blue-holographic mist — flat color, strong outlines, one last ridiculous flourish of a pose in the silhouette as it rises — lifts out of the cave, up through the mouth, past the aura-wall, into the higher aura above.
 
 Gone.
 
@@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@ INT. RECOVERY BAY - BACKSTAGE - CONTINUOUS
 
 /* The recovery bay. A long, high-ceilinged concrete gallery — Catmull-Baroque ornament bolted to the structural slabs at shoulder height and up; the upper reaches still raw Brutae. Eight RESTORATION NICHES along one wall — stone alcoves framed in low-poly gilded arches, each with a soft blue pulse at its base. Seven of the niches are already occupied: Agate, Starboy, Noname, Jenni, Ubear, Adrian, Beanie — all standing in their niches as the last of the reconstitution mist knits them back together. They are whole. They are rattled. They are alive. They are wearing exactly what they were wearing when they died.
 
-The eighth niche is just now reconstituting. A blue mist settles into the shape of a porcelain-periwinkle Killer Queen silhouette with a ridiculous Cena tee. */
+The eighth niche is just now reconstituting. A blue mist settles into the shape of a porcelain-periwinkle humanoid silhouette with a ridiculous Cena tee. */
 
 Along the wall, the conscious dead.